Mondo Macabro’s October 2018 New Releases
THE INHERITORS (1983)- A chilling and timely look into the twisted world of the extreme right.
BLOODLUST (1977)
Label: Mondo Macabro
Release Date: October 9th 2018
Duration: 92 Minutes
Region Code: A
Video: 1080p HD Widescreen (1.78:1)
Audio: English & German PCM Mono
Director: Marijan Vajda
Cast: Werner Pochath, Ellen Umlauf, Birgit Zamulo, Gerhard Ruhnke, Peter Hamm, Charly Hiltl, Hary Olsbauer, Marion Messner
Haunted by a childhood trauma... a deaf-mute accountant develops a fixation with blood spilling across his skin. Brief flirtations with ketchup and red ink seem to satisfy him at first, but he soon develops a taste for the real thing. Though he nurses a weird fascination for a neighborhood girl who passes the time by dancing on the rooftop, he remains socially withdrawn with his co-workers and can't even find comfort in the arms of a hooker. One night he breaks into the property of the local undertaker and ravages the prettiest female corpse. Now addicted, he habitually raids the tombs of the dead and drinks blood from their throats via a spiked, double-pronged glass straw. Authorities and citizens are incensed by these crimes and the search is on for this modern day vampire.
BLOODLUST is one of the darkest and most affecting horror movies to come out of 1970s Europe. Based on the macabre true story of Kuno Hofmann, the “Vampire of Nuremberg”, the film plays like a kind of grown-up fairy tale, albeit one that includes bloodsucking, eyeball evisceration and voyeuristic lesbian sex scenes among a host of other activities. Cut and banned in many countries, this is the full-length version in all its gruesome, gory, glory.
SPECIAL FEATURES:
- Brand new 2k transfer from the film negative.
- Exclusive interview with the assistant director.
- Exclusive interview with actress Birgit Zamulo.
- Original UK trailer.
- German/English audio choice.
- Newly created, optional English subtitles.
- Mondo Macabro previews.
THE INHERITORS (1983)
Release Date: October 9th 2018
Duration: 90 Minutes in English and German
Region Code: A
Video: 1080P HD Widescreen (1.78:1)
Audio: English & German PCM Mono
Director: Walter Bannert
Cast: Nikolas Vogel, Roger Schauer, Wolfgang Gasser, Anneliese Stöckl-Eberhard, Jaromír Borek, John Ottwald
On his way home from school, 16-year-old Thomas helps Charly, an unemployed teenager, escape from the police. Despite their differing backgrounds, the boys become good friends and Charly persuades Thomas to join a neo-Nazi youth group. Intrigued and confused by his new friends, Thomas, who is experiencing trouble at home and school, is drawn deeper into a web of sex and violence that leads to a tragic end.
In 1979, Austrian film director Walter Bannert was among a group of Vienna cafe patrons beaten up by a gang of young neo-Nazis who wrecked the place. Researching the burgeoning movement in West Germany and Austria for 3 years, Bannert infiltrated their private meetings by convincing party leaders that he wanted to make an objective documentary. His film, THE INHERITORS is the result, a disturbing and timely fictional drama based entirely on real characters, events and conversations that Bannert came across in the neo-Nazi camps. The film was highly controversial on its original release and theatres screening it was threatened with violent action by neo-Nazi sympathizers. Although it is now over thirty years old, the film remains incredibly relevant as we witness, across the world, the rebirth of right-wing extremism using exactly the same lies and tactics exposed so powerfully in this film.
THE INHERITORS was not screened in its native country for many years until it was rediscovered at the 2015 Viennale Exhibition, where it was praised as a rare and powerful example of Austrian genre cinema with a strong political message. The film was selected at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival for the prestigious Directors Fortnight section. In the same year, it also won a jury prize at the Montreal World Film Festival.
SPECIAL FEATURES:
- Brand new 2k scan from the film negative.
- Exclusive 12-page booklet with essays by Michael Gingold and filmmaker Paul Poet.
- Original theatrical trailer.
- English/German audio choice.
- Newly created subtitles
